Rex Lowe

Following formal education in local public schools I enrolled at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, receiving a B. S. in Botany in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Botany in 1970. I was employed as an Assistant Professor of Biology at Bowling Green State University in 1970 and promoted to Professor in 1981. Other positions held during my academic career include , Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, Central Michigan Univ., NSF Summer Institute, Central Michigan University Biological Station, Beaver Island, MI, June -August 1971, Visiting Professor, Univ. of Michigan Biological Station, June-August 1974-present, Visiting Professor of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1982-1983, Visiting Research Scientist, Hydrology Centre, New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Christchurch, New Zealand 1991-1992, Fellow, Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, Ann Arbor, MI, 1991-present, Membership Chair and Institutional Representative of the Great Lakes Aquatic Ecosystem Research Consortium, 1993-present and Institutional Representative to National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, Section on Fisheries and Wildlife Resources, 1993-present. I have served as a consultant to over 25 private and public organizations on water quality issues, published over 80 articles and 50 abstracts on the ecology of aquatic ecosystems and have received major research funding from NSF, USEPA, NOAA, and the Procter and Gamble Co. More than 50 masters, Ph.D. and post-doctoral researchers have been trained in my laboratory.

Species Reviewed

Amphora pediculus | Nitzschia biacrula | Nitzschia dissipata | Staurosira construens | Karayevia amoena | Karayevia clevei | Karayevia laterostrata | Karayevia oblongella | Karayevia suchlandtii | Surirella atomus | Surirella brebissonii | Surirella iowensis | Surirella ovalis | Surirella stalagma | Amphora minutissima | Halamphora coffeaeformis | Halamphora montana | Halamphora normanii | Halamphora veneta | Eunotia canicula | Eunotia mydohaimasiae | Eunotia obliquestriata | Eunotia enischna | Eunotia rushforthii | Gomphoneis herculeana var. abundans | Gomphoneis eriense var. angularis | Gomphoneis eriense var. apiculata | Gomphoneis septa | Gomphoneis trullata | Karayevia nitidiformis | Planothidium holstii | Navicula subrhynchocephala | Planothidium haynaldii | Planothidium apiculatum | Nitzschia oregona | Nitzschia sinuata var. tabellaria | Nitzschia columbiana | Nitzschia communis | Nitzschia desertorum | Rhopalodia gibba | Rhopalodia musculus | Tabularia fasciculata | Tryblionella calida | Tryblionella hungarica | Navicula goersii | Craticula halophila | Cymatopleura solea | Cymbella janischii | Diatoma tenuis | Gomphonema apicatum | Gomphonema brebissonii | Gomphonema coronatum | Gomphonema elongatum | Karayevia ploenensis var. gessneri | Meridion circulare | Fallacia pygmaea | Pseudofallacia tenera | Nitzschia amphibia | Sellaphora bacillum | Nitzschia brevissima | Navicula slesvicensis | Navicula subconcentrica | Navicula viridula | Navicula viridulacalcis subsp. neomundana | Navicula vulpina | Entomoneis alata | Entomoneis ornata | Entomoneis paludosa | Entomoneis punctulata | Plagiotropis arizonica | Plagiotropis lepidoptera var. proboscidea | Sellaphora bacilloides | Achnanthes inflata | Caloneis lewisii | Fragilariforma nitzschioides | Nitzschia alpina | Synedra famelica | Nitzschia regula var. robusta | Kobayasiella jaagii | Kobayasiella micropunctata | Kobayasiella parasubtilissima | Kobayasiella subtilissima | Stauroneis agrestis | Stauroneis kriegeri | Stauroneis pseudagrestis | Navicula rostellata | Fallacia latelongitudinalis | Sellaphora wallacei | Fragilariforma virescens | Pseudostaurosira elliptica | Pseudostaurosira neoelliptica | Navicula caterva | Stauroforma exiguiformis |